Terms

• ACCELERATION

• ALGEBRAIC EIGENVALUE PROBLEM

• AREA COORDINATES

• ASPECT RATIO

• ASSEMBLY

• AUTOMATIC MESH GENERATION

• AUTOMATIC NODE RENUMBERING BANDWITH PROFILE WAVEFRONT

• AXISYMMETRIC ELEMENT

• AXISYMMETRIC THIN SHELL AXISYMMETRICAL THICK SHELL

• AXISYMMETRY

• BANDWIDTH

• BARLOW POINTS

• BASIS SPACE

• BEAM ELEMENT

• BENDING

• BODY FORCE VECTOR

• BOUNDARY ELEMENT BOUNDARY INTEGRAL

• BUBBLE FUNCTIONS

• BUCKLING (SNAP THROUGH)

• CENTRAL DIFFERENCE METHOD

• CHARACTERISTIC VALUE

• CHARACTERISTIC VECTOR

• CHOLESKY FACTORISATION (SKYLINE)

• COEFFICIENT OF VISCOUS DAMPING

• COLUMN VECTOR (COLUMN MATRIX)

• COMPATIBILITY EQUATIONS

• COMPATIBILITY OF STRAINS

• COMPLETE DISPLACEMENT FIELD

• COMPLEX EIGENVALUES

• COMPLEX EIGENVECTORS

• COMPOSITE MATERIAL

• CONDENSATION STATIC CONDENSATION MODAL CONDENSATION

• CONDITION NUMBER

• CONDITIONAL STABILITY UNCONDITIONAL STABILITY

• CONGRUENT TRANSFORMATION

• CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD

• CONSISTENT DISPLACEMENTS AND FORCES

• CONSTANT STRAIN CONSTANT STRESS

• CONSTITUTIVE RELATIONSHIPS

• CONSTRAINT EQUATIONS (MULTI POINT CONSTRAINTS)

• CONSTRAINTS

• CONTACT PROBLEMS

• CONTINUOUS MASS MODELS

• CONTINUOUS MODELS

• CONTOUR PLOTTING

• CONVERGENCE REQUIREMENTS

• CONVOLUTION INTEGRAL (DUHAMEL INTEGRAL)

• COORDINATE SYSTEM

• CORRESPONDING FORCES AND DISPLACEMENTS

• CRACK ELEMENT (CRACK TIP ELEMENT)

• CRACK PROPAGATION (FRACTURE MECHANICS)

• CRANK-NICHOLSON SCHEME

• CRITICAL ENERGY RELEASE

• CRITICALLY DAMPED SYSTEM CRITICAL DAMPING

• CYCLIC SYMMETRY

• DAMPED EIGENVALUES

• DAMPED EIGENVECTORS

• DAMPED NATURAL FREQUENCY

• DAMPING

• DAMPING FACTOR (DECAY FACTOR)

• DEGENERATE ELEMENTS

• DEGREES OF FREEDOM

• DET(J) DET J

• DETERMINISTIC ANALYSIS

• DEVIATORIC STRESS STRESS DEVIATORS

• DIAGONAL DECAY

• DIAGONAL GENERALISED MATRIX

• DIE-AWAY LENGTH

• DIRECT INTEGRATION

• DIRECTION COSINES

• DISCRETE PARAMETER MODELS (DISCRETISED APPROACH)

• DISPLACEMENT METHOD (DISPLACEMENT SOLUTION)

• DISPLACEMENT PLOTS

• DISPLACEMENT VECTOR

• DISSIMILAR SHAPE FUNCTIONS INCOMPATIBLE SHAPE FUNCTIONS

• DISTORTION ELEMENT DISTORTION

• DRUCKER-PRAGER EQUIVALENT STRESSES

• DYNAMIC ANALYSIS

• DYNAMIC FLEXIBILITY MATRIX

• DYNAMIC MODELLING

• DYNAMIC STIFFNESS MATRIX

• DYNAMIC STRESSES

• DYNAMIC SUBSTRUCTURING

• EIGENVALUE PROBLEM

• EIGENVALUES LATENT ROOTS CHARACTERISTIC VALUES

• EIGENVECTORS LATENT VECTORS NORMAL MODES

• ELASTIC FOUNDATION

• ELASTIC STIFFNESS

• ELECTRIC FIELDS

• ELEMENT

• ELEMENT ASSEMBLY

• ELEMENT STRAINS ELEMENT STRESSES

• ENERGY METHODS HAMILTONS PRINCIPLE

• ENGINEERING NORMALISATION MATHEMATICAL NORMALISATION

• EQUILIBRIUM EQUATIONS

• EQUILIBRIUM FINITE ELEMENTS

• EQUIVALENT MATERIAL PROPERTIES

• EQUIVALENT STRESS

• ERGODIC PROCESS

• EULERIAN METHOD LAGRANGIAN METHOD

• EXACT SOLUTIONS

• EXPLICIT METHODS IMPLICIT METHODS

• EXTRAPOLATION INTERPOLATION

• FACETED GEOMETRY

• FAST FOURIER TRANSFORM

• FIELD PROBLEMS

• FINITE DIFFERENCES

• FINITE VOLUME METHODS

• FLEXIBILITY MATRIX FORCE METHOD

• FORCED RESPONSE

• FORCING FUNCTIONS

• FOURIER EXPANSIONS FOURIER SERIES

• FOURIER TRANSFORM

• FOURIER TRANSFORM PAIR

• FRAMEWORK ANALYSIS

• FREE VIBRATION

• FREQUENCY DOMAIN

• FRONTAL SOLUTION WAVEFRONT SOLUTION

• GAP ELEMENT CONTACT ELEMENT

• GAUSS POINT EXTRAPOLATION GAUSS POINT STRESSES

• GAUSS POINTS GAUSS WEIGHTS

• GAUSSIAN ELIMINATION

• GAUSSIAN INTEGRATION GAUSSIAN QUADRATURE

• GENERALISED COORDINATES

• GENERALISED MASS

• GENERALISED STIFFNESS

• GEOMETRIC STIFFNESS STRESS STIFFNESS

• GEOMETRICAL ERRORS

• GLOBAL STIFFNESS MATRIX

• GROSS DEFORMATIONS

• GUARD VECTORS

• GUYAN REDUCTION METHOD

• GYROSCOPIC FORCES

• H-REFINEMENT P-REFINEMENT

• HARDENING STRUCTURE

• HARMONIC LOADING

• HEAT CONDUCTION

• HERMITIAN SHAPE FUNCTIONS

• HIDDEN LINE REMOVAL

• HIGH ASPECT RATIO LOW ASPECT RATIO

• HOLONOMIC CONSTRAINTS

• HOOKES LAW

• HOURGLASS MODE

• HYBRID ELEMENTS

• HYDROSTATIC STRESS

• HYSTERETIC DAMPING

• ILL-CONDITIONING ERRORS

• ILL-CONDITIONING ILL-CONDITIONED EQUATIONS

• IMPULSE RESPONSE FUNCTION

• IMPULSE RESPONSE MATRIX

• INCREMENTAL SOLUTION

• INELASTIC MATERIAL BEHAVIOUR

• INERTANCE (ACCELERANCE)

• INERTIA FORCE

• INITIAL BUCKLING

• INITIAL STRAINS

• INTEGRATION BY PARTS

• INTERPOLATION FUNCTIONS SHAPE FUNCTIONS

• ISOPARAMETRIC ELEMENT

• ISOTROPIC MATERIAL

• J-INTEGRAL METHODS

• JACOBI METHOD

• JACOBIAN MATRIX

• JOINTS

• KINEMATIC BOUNDARY CONDITIONS

• KINEMATICALLY EQUIVALENT FORCES (LOADS)

• KINEMATICALLY EQUIVALENT MASS

• KINETIC ENERGY

• LAGRANGE INTERPOLATION LAGRANGE SHAPE FUNCTIONS

• LAGRANGE MULTIPLIER TECHNIQUE

• LANCZOS METHOD

• LEAST SQUARES FIT

• LINEAR DEPENDENCE

• LINEAR SYSTEM

• LOADINGS

• LOCAL STRESSES

• LOWER BOUND SOLUTION UPPER BOUND SOLUTION

• LUMPED MASS MODEL

• MASS

• MASS MATRIX

• MASTER FREEDOMS

• MATERIAL LOSS FACTOR

• MATERIAL PROPERTIES

• MATERIAL STIFFNESS MATRIX MATERIAL FLEXIBILITY MATRIX

• MATRIX DISPLACEMENT METHOD

• MATRIX FORCE METHOD

• MATRIX INVERSE

• MATRIX NOTATION MATRIX ALGEBRA

• MATRIX PRODUCTS

• MATRIX TRANSPOSE

• MEAN SQUARE CONVERGENCE

• MEMBRANE

• MESH DENSITY MESH REFINEMENT

• MESH GENERATION ELEMENT GENERATION

• MESH SPECIFICATION

• MESH SUITABILITY

• MINDLIN ELEMENTS

• MOBILITY

• MODAL DAMPING

• MODAL MASS

• MODAL STIFFNESS

• MODAL TESTING

• MODE PARTICIPATION FACTOR

• MODE SHAPE

• MODELLING

• MODIFIED NEWTON-RAPHSON

• MOHR COULOMB EQUIVALENT STRESS

• MULTI DEGREE OF FREEDOM

• MULTI-POINT CONSTRAINTS

• NATURAL FREQUENCY

• NATURAL MODE

• NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS

• NEWMARK METHOD NEWMARK BETA METHOD

• NEWTON COTES FORMULAE

• NEWTON-RAPHSON NON-LINEAR SOLUTION

• NODAL VALUES

• NODE NODES NODAL

• NON-CONFORMING ELEMENTS

• NON-HOLONOMIC CONSTRAINTS

• NON-LINEAR SYSTEM NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS

• NON-STATIONARY RANDOM

• NON-STRUCTURAL MASS

• NORM

• NUMERICAL INTEGRATION

• OPTIMAL SAMPLING POINTS

• OVER DAMPED SYSTEM

• OVERSTIFF SOLUTIONS

• PARAMETRIC STUDIES PILOT STUDIES

• PARTICIPATION FACTOR

• PATCH TEST

• PERIODIC RESPONSE FORCE

• PHASE ANGLE

• PLANE STRAIN PLANE STRESS

• PLATE BENDING ELEMENTS

• POISSONS RATIO

• POST ANALYSIS CHECKS

• POST-PROCESSING

• POTENTIAL ENERGY

• POTENTIAL FLOW

• POWER METHOD

• PRANDTL-REUSS EQUATIONS

• PRIMARY COMPONENT

• PRINCIPAL CURVATURE

• PRINCIPAL STRESSES

• PROFILE

• PROPORTIONAL DAMPING

• QR METHOD

• RADIATION DAMPING

• RANDOM ANALYSIS

• RANDOM VIBRATIONS

• RANK DEFICIENCY

• RAYLEIGH DAMPING

• RAYLELGH QUOTIENT

• REACTION FORCES

• RECEPTANCE

• REDUCED INTEGRATION

• RESPONSE SPECTRUM METHOD

• RESTARTS CHECKPOINTS

• RIGID BODY DEFORMATIONS

• RIGID BODY DISPLACEMENT

• RIGID BODY MODES

• RIGID LINKS RIGID OFFSETS

• ROUNDOFF ERROR

• ROW VECTOR ROW MATRIX

• SCALARS VECTORS

• SECANT STIFFNESS

• SECONDARY COMPONENTS

• SEEPAGE FLOW

• SEISMIC ANALYSIS

• SELECTED REDUCED INTEGRATION

• SELF ADJOINT EQUATIONS

• SELF EQUILIBRATING LOADS

• SEMI-LOOF ELEMENT

• SHAKEDOWN

• SIMPSONS RULE

• SIMULTANEOUS VECTOR ITERATION

• SINGLE DEGREE OF FREEDOM

• SINGLE POINT CONSTRAINT

• SINGULAR MATRIX

• SKEW DISTORTION (ANGULAR DISTORTION)

• SOLID ELEMENTS

• SOLUTION DIAGNOSTICS

• SOLUTION EFFICIENCY

• SPARSE MATRIX METHODS

• SPECTRAL DENSITY

• SPLINE CURVES

• SPURIOUS CRACKS

• STATICALLY DETERMINATE STRUCTURE

• STATICALLY EQUIVALENT LOADS

• STATICALLY INDETERMINATE STRUCTURE REDUNDANT

• STATIONARY RANDOM EXCITATION

• STEADY STATE RESPONSE

• STEP-BY-STEP INTEGRATION

• STIFFNESS MATRIX

• STRAIN ENERGY

• STRESS AVERAGING STRESS SMOOTHING

• STRESS CONCENTRATION

• STRESS DISCONTINUITIES STRESS ERROR ESTIMATES

• STRESS EXTRAPOLATION

• STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS

• STRESS VECTOR STRESS TENSOR STRAIN VECTOR STRAIN TENSOR

• STRESS-STRAIN LAW

• SUBSPACE VECTOR ITERATION

• SUBSTRUCTURING SUPER ELEMENT METHOD

• SUPERPOSITION

• SUPPORTS

• SURFACE ELEMENT

• SYMMETRICAL MATRIX SKEW SYMMETRIC MATRIX HERMITIAN

• SYMMETRY

• TANGENT STIFFNESS

• TETRAHEDRON TETRAHEDRAL ELEMENT

• THERMAL CAPACITY

• THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY

• THERMAL LOADS

• THERMAL STRAINS

• THIN SHELL ELEMENT THICK SHELL ELEMENT

• TIME DOMAIN

• TRACE OF THE MATRIX

• TRANSFINITE MAPPING

• TRANSFORMATION METHOD

• TRANSIENT FORCE

• TRANSIENT RESPONSE

• TRANSITION ELEMENT

• TRIANGULAR ELEMENTS

• ULTIMATE STRESS

• UNDAMPED NATURAL FREQUENCY

• UNDER DAMPED SYSTEM

• UNIT MATRIX

• UPDATED LAGRANGIAN TOTAL LAGRANGIAN

• UPWINDING IN FLUIDS

• VARIABLE BANDWIDTH (SKYLINE)

• VELOCITY

• VIRTUAL CRACK EXTENSION CRACK PROPAGATION

• VIRTUAL DISPLACEMENTS

• VIRTUAL WORK VIRTUAL DISPLACEMENTS VIRTUAL FORCES

• VISCOUS DAMPING

• VISCOUS DAMPING MATRIX

• VOLUME DISTORTION VOLUMETRIC DISTORTION

• VON MISES EQUIVALENT STRESS TRESCA EQUIVALENT STRESS

• WAVE PROPAGATION

• WAVEFRONT (FRONT)

• WEIGHTED RESIDUALS

• WHIRLING STABILITY

• WHITE NOISE

• WILSON THETA METHOD

• WORD LENGTH

• YOUNGS MODULUS

• ZERO ENERGY MODES ZERO STIFFNESS MODES